CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, DUBAI

Subject: Chemistry Year: 11

Name: STOICHIOMETRY- AFL Date:

(1) Which two of the following contain the same number of molecules?
Show how you arrived at your answer.

2.0 g of methane, CH4

8.0 g of oxygen, O2
2.0 g of ozone, O3
8.0 g of sulfur dioxide, SO2

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2 (a) A compound, X, contains 55.85% carbon, 6.97% hydrogen and 37.18% oxygen.

(i) How does this prove that compound X contains only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen?

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(ii) Use the above percentages to calculate the empirical formula of compound X.

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(iii) The Mr of X is 86.

What is its molecular formula?

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3 Dilute hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium carbonate solution.

2HCl (aq) + Na2CO3(aq) → 2NaCl (aq) + H2O(l) + CO2(g)

(a) Explain why effervescence is seen during the reaction.

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(b) Dilute hydrochloric acid was titrated with sodium carbonate solution.

• 10.0 cm3 of 0.100 mol / dm3 hydrochloric acid were placed in a conical flask.
• A few drops of methyl orange indicator were added to the dilute hydrochloric acid.
• The mixture was titrated with sodium carbonate solution.
• 16.2 cm3 of sodium carbonate solution were required to react completely with the acid.

(i) What colour would the methyl orange indicator be in the hydrochloric acid?

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(ii) Calculate how many moles of hydrochloric acid were used.

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(iii) Use your answer to (b)(ii) and the equation for the reaction to calculate the number of
moles of sodium carbonate that reacted.

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(iv) Use your answer to (b)(iii) to calculate the concentration of the sodium carbonate solution
in mol / dm3.

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(c) In another experiment, 0.020 mol of sodium carbonate were reacted with excess hydrochloric
acid.

Calculate the maximum volume (at r.t.p.) of carbon dioxide gas that could be made in this
reaction.

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4 Two salts can be made from potassium hydroxide and sulfuric acid. They are potassium sulfate,
K2SO4, and the acid salt potassium hydrogen sulfate, KHSO4. They are both made by titration.

burette filled with

sulfuric acid

conical flask

25.0 cm3 of potassium hydroxide solution

(a) 25.0 cm3 of potassium hydroxide, concentration 2.53 mol / dm3, was neutralised by 28.2 cm3 of
dilute sulfuric acid.

2KOH(aq) + H2SO4(aq) o K2SO4(aq) + 2H2O(l) Calculate

the concentration of the sulfuric acid.

number of moles of KOH used = ............................

number of moles of H2SO4 needed to neutralise the KOH = ............................

concentration of dilute sulfuric acid = ............................ mol / dm3

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(5) The equation for the decomposition of copper(II) nitrate is given below.

2Cu(NO3)2 → 2CuO + 4NO2 + O2

(i) Predict what you would observe when copper(II) nitrate is heated.

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(ii) Copper(II) nitrate forms a series of hydrates with the formula Cu(NO3)2.xH2O.
All these hydrates decompose to form copper(II) oxide.
1 mole of Cu(NO3)2.xH2O forms 1 mole of CuO.

What is meant by 1 mole of a substance?

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(iii) 7.26 g of a hydrate, Cu(NO3)2.xH2O, formed 2.4 g copper(II) oxide.

number of moles of CuO formed = ......................

number of moles of Cu(NO3)2.xH2O in 7.26 g = ......................

mass of 1 mole of Cu(NO3)2.xH2O = ...................... g

mass of 1 mole of Cu(NO3)2 is 188 g

the value of x in this hydrate = ......................

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